This is a huge city - Frankfurt. Its airport also has significant dimensions. In terms of passenger traffic, it occupies an honorable third place in Europe. Ahead is only London Heathrow and Paris Charles de Gaulle. Thus, Frankfurt am Main International Airport, passing through itself more than fifty-three million passengers a year, is ahead of the Moscow hub located in Berlin. It can be called the second in Europe. Indeed, in terms of cargo transportation, it is second only to the Paris Charles de Gaulle Airport. These air gates of southwestern Germany have many names. Officially, it bears the title of Rhine-Main Airport. He also has a double. It is a small Frankfurt-Hahn airport. To understand where you land, you need to look at the codes. The largest hub in Germany, ICAO - EDDF, and IATA - FRA. Some laukoster, including airliners from Russia, fly to Frankfurt-Hahn.
Where is it located?
Germany's largest hub is located just twelve kilometers southeast of the center of a city like Frankfurt. A twin airport separates one hundred and twenty kilometers from the big city on Main. Frankfurt-Hahn is located in the federal state of Rhineland-Palatinate. It is located between two small towns of Leutzenhuisen and Hunsrück (Khan). The nearest major city to Frankfurt-Hahn Airport is Koblenz. It is also a convenient landing place to go to the dwarf principality of Luxembourg. But back to the largest airport in Germany, which is located in the federal state of Hesse. Twelve kilometers - a short distance. Nevertheless, the issue of transfer to the hotel remains relevant for those tourists who first fly to Frankfurt.
Airport: how to get to the city?
Frankfurt Flughafen's convenient location and excellent transport infrastructure eliminate all problems. The city can be reached by train, bus, shuttle, taxi and rented car. After all, nearby are the A3 and A5 motorways. A taxi ride will cost you approximately forty euros. Online booking of a car will help to slightly reduce the cost. Taxi rank is at the exit of the first terminal. Perhaps the most convenient way to get from Frankfurt Airport to the city is by train. It is called S-Bahn (es-ban). Two lines at once - number eight and nine - depart from the first terminal (exit B) with a regularity of fifteen minutes. All of them pass through the main railway station (the third stop, called Frankfurt Hofbahnhof). By the same regional trains you can reach the center of Wiesbaden. The cost of one ticket to Frankfurt is 4.35 euros. It must be purchased at the machine (accepts small bills and credit cards) or at the box office. If you get off at the fifth stop from the airport - Hauptwache, then you will get to the central pedestrian street of the city.
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Ordinary trains also follow through Frankfurt. The airport of this city is on the list of the most popular stations. Just do not confuse them with electric trains - es-bans. There are completely different tariffs. Follow through the airport and intercity high-speed trains. They are designated by the acronym ICE. Taking advantage of this fast, comfortable, but terribly expensive form of transport, you can find yourself in Vienna, Zurich, Amsterdam, Brussels, Cologne, Munich and other cities in Germany. To travel around the region, you should take the regional trains, which are designated by RE. Thus you can get to Karlsruhe, Stuttgart, Mainz.
To Frankfurt - by bus
This is a very convenient and inexpensive form of transport, especially since a ticket for it is purchased from the driver. But there is one difficulty. There are a lot of stops around the terminals. Buses depart from them in different directions. If we want to get to the city center, we need route No. 61. It is called “Airport - South Station”. This bus leaves from the first floor of terminal No. 1 (stop 16) and from the second tier of terminal No. 2. The car takes half an hour to the final station. Many airlines have chosen Frankfurt. This airport, for example, is preferred by Lufthansa aircraft as the landing site. For the convenience of its customers, this airline sends special shuttles to Strasbourg and Heidelberg. Tickets are better to buy at special points of sale, they are more expensive from the driver. About a dozen different bus routes depart from the first terminal to Darmstadt, Schwanheim, Obertshausen and other towns in the region. Many hotels in Germany have a service to deliver customers from the nearest airport. In some hotels it is free, while in others it costs up to five euros.
Frankfurt Airport Scheme
The largest hub in Germany was built in 1936 and since then has repeatedly expanded and modernized. Now it has two large terminals and one small - for VIPs and government delegations. There are five huge halls at the airport, which are easy to get lost if you do not look at the signs with signs. If you know English or German at least at a basic level and be careful, there should not be any problems finding a check-in desk, boarding gates, bus or train stops. Two common terminals connect the Skyline monorail inside the building and a free shuttle. This last bus leaves the special parking lot every ten minutes. Aircraft take four runways. Baggage is automatically sorted.
Who flies to Frankfurt?
Both terminals accept aircraft of various airlines. If you do not know at which stop you should go - T1 or T2, the Frankfurt Airport timetable will familiarize you with this. It is available online. Immediately behind the entrance you can see the signs on which the flights are indicated, the companies that make them, and the numbers of the check-in desks. Lufthansa, a trustworthy German air carrier, has made Frankfurt Airport its “headquarters”. Its subsidiary Lufthansa CityLine is also based here. In addition to Lufthansa, airliners of Condor Flugdinst, Eurovings, San Express Jemani, TUIFlay, Ex Al Airways Germany and other German and foreign carriers arrive at Frankfurt Airport.
Security
The second of March 2011 was a black day for a city like Frankfurt. The airport, whose photo was suddenly disseminated by major media outlets, turned out to be a scene of a terrorist attack. A citizen of Germany, an ethnic Albanian and a staunch Islamist, twenty-year-old Arid Uka shot American soldiers who arrived from Afghanistan. The terrorist was helped by the fact that he worked at the airport. The soldiers were unarmed and in civilian clothes. They got off the plane and got on the bus. Arid Uka also made his way there and opened fire. As a result of the attack, two people were killed and as many were injured. The attacker was detained when he tried to hide in the airport building. This event served as a lesson to the hub administration. Now, security measures may seem excessive to someone. You must arrive at the flight in advance, because queues always accumulate in front of the detector .